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Pilot Officer, Royal Australian Air Force. Age: 23.
Service Number: 418496
Squadron: 467 (Australian)
Son of Arthur John and May Elizabeth A'Court, of East Kew, Victoria, Australia.
On 21 June 1944 Gladstone, a navigator, took off from RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire on board an Avro Lancaster III, serial number ED532, markings PO-H Australia. Takeoff was at 23:02 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Scholven-Buer.
The aircraft was intercepted by Hauptmann Ernst-Wilhelm Modrow & Unteroffizier Erich Schneider of the 1./NJG 1, who had taken off from Venlo airfield (the Netherlands) at 00:43 hrs in Heinkel He 219 A-0 G9+AH.
The crew consisted of
(F/S) Samuel Henry Dennis Breedon
(F/S) Ronald John Carlill
(P/O) Edgar Vincent Dearnaley
(Sgt) Joseph Edward Emmett
(F/S) Rowland McPherson Hill
(P/O) Jack Mitchell
(Sgt) Roy Trevethan
(P/O) Gladstone Arthur A'Court
View Memorial Site here.
Pilot Officer, Royal Australian Air Force. Age: 23.
Service Number: 418496
Squadron: 467 (Australian)
Son of Arthur John and May Elizabeth A'Court, of East Kew, Victoria, Australia.
On 21 June 1944 Gladstone, a navigator, took off from RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire on board an Avro Lancaster III, serial number ED532, markings PO-H Australia. Takeoff was at 23:02 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Scholven-Buer.
The aircraft was intercepted by Hauptmann Ernst-Wilhelm Modrow & Unteroffizier Erich Schneider of the 1./NJG 1, who had taken off from Venlo airfield (the Netherlands) at 00:43 hrs in Heinkel He 219 A-0 G9+AH.
The crew consisted of
(F/S) Samuel Henry Dennis Breedon
(F/S) Ronald John Carlill
(P/O) Edgar Vincent Dearnaley
(Sgt) Joseph Edward Emmett
(F/S) Rowland McPherson Hill
(P/O) Jack Mitchell
(Sgt) Roy Trevethan
(P/O) Gladstone Arthur A'Court
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